{"product_id":"crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoevsky","title":"Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAt the time, Dostoevsky owed large sums of money to creditors and was trying to help the family of his brother Mikhail, who had died in early 1864. After appeals elsewhere failed, Dostoevsky turned as a last resort to the publisher \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikhail_Katkov\" title=\"Mikhail Katkov\"\u003eMikhail Katkov\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and sought an advance on a proposed contribution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrank1994168_8-0\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime_and_Punishment#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrank1994168-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e7\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e He offered his story or novella (at the time, he was not thinking of a novel)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime_and_Punishment#cite_note-9\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e8\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e for publication in Katkov's monthly journal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Russian_Messenger\" title=\"The Russian Messenger\"\u003eThe Russian Messenger\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—a prestigious publication of its kind, and the outlet for both \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivan_Turgenev\" title=\"Ivan Turgenev\"\u003eIvan Turgenev\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Tolstoy\" title=\"Leo Tolstoy\"\u003eLeo Tolstoy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Dostoevsky, having been engaged in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polemic\" title=\"Polemic\"\u003epolemical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e debates with Katkov in the early 1860s, had never published anything in its pages before. In a letter to Katkov written in September 1865, Dostoevsky explained to him that the work was to be about a young man who yields to \"certain strange, 'unfinished' ideas, yet floating in the air\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime_and_Punishment#cite_note-10\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e9\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e He planned to explore the moral and psychological dangers of the ideology of \"radicalism\", and felt that the project would appeal to the conservative Katkov.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrank1994179_11-0\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime_and_Punishment#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrank1994179-11\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e10\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cspan\u003e In letters written in November 1865, an important conceptual change occurred: the \"story\" had become a \"novel\". From then on, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrime and Punishment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is referred to as a novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003csup id=\"cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMiller200758–9_12-0\" class=\"reference\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crime_and_Punishment#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMiller200758%E2%80%939-12\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e[\u003c\/span\u003e11\u003cspan class=\"cite-bracket\"\u003e]\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Story Teller World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48701602300059,"sku":null,"price":440.0,"currency_code":"BDT","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0696\/5795\/2411\/files\/Crime_and_Punishment-Fyodor_Dostoyevsky-a8afe-84654.jpg?v=1780738151","url":"https:\/\/stwbd.com\/products\/crime-and-punishment-by-fyodor-dostoevsky","provider":"Story Teller World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}